OpenCloud - possible Nextcloud replacement/alternative?

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I’ve been seeing a bit on YouTube lately about OpenCloud:

I understand it’s the same folks as were behind Owncloud (the ones that didn’t spin off to Nextcloud, anyway), and rather than being LAMP-based, it’s Go-based, with flat-file data storage rather than a database. As a result, performance is said to be better (and performance certainly isn’t Nextcloud’s strong suit).

I haven’t played with it as yet–their preferred deployment is via one giant Compose stack (see opencloud/deployments/examples/opencloud_full at main · opencloud-eu/opencloud · GitHub - the .env file alone is 300 lines long) that wants to grab ports 80 and 443 for itself and thus doesn’t appear to play nicely with an existing reverse proxy setup. But it sounds like it may have some potential.

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I have already asked myself this question, as OpenCloud is now being heavily promoted in Germany. With Peer Heinlein [1] [2] [3], the German godfather of mail servers, it has a supporter who lends the whole project weight and credibility.

When I think of secure email or private cloud storage, I don’t think of Proton, but rather Mailbox.org.

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I created an app to test opencloud in NS8, it’s available from my repo. A valid certificate seems needed, a self-signed one didn’t work in my tests.
This is just opencloud, so for example keycloak or clamav from the compose stack are missing.
Login is admin:admin.

OpenCloud Documentation: https://docs.opencloud.eu/

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You are soooo smart!

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I confirm that the app can be installed and used.

The scope of administration options is significantly more limited than in NC, esp.

  • AD integration
  • The admin profile cannot be edited (e.g. to change the email address).
  • SMB shares as external storage
  • and the expansion with packages from the App Store does not work.

It also does not appear that this is to be expected in a manner comparable to NC.

On the other hand, the response speed in the GUI is impressive. Much smoother than in NC… my subjective impression.

But you surely know that yourself, dear @mrmarkuz

But the speed with which you made the app available is unmatched.

At the moment, OpenCloud still seems like a design study, not yet ready for productive use, as one would expect from NC.

But I could imagine that this will soon change on the development side. It might be worth keeping OC on your radar.
Many thanks!

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